Thread: Amazon no longer sells ePubs in favour of Kindle eBooks
View Single Post
Old 08-26-2012, 03:04 PM   #55
Nate the great
Sir Penguin of Edinburgh
Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Nate the great's Avatar
 
Posts: 12,375
Karma: 23555235
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: DC Metro area
Device: Shake a stick plus 1
Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Nate, you don't have to take my word for this. Get an iBooks fixed-layout book and run it through the ePub validator at http://validator.idpf.org/. It will fail validation - I guarantee it.

Regardless of the fact that some people may choose to call such fixed layout books "ePub" (and it's certainly true that some people do), it's just plain wrong to do so. They are not valid ePub books; they are books that can only be read by iBooks.
Wrong again. It will validate:
http://blog.threepress.org/2011/01/1...-layout-epubs/

But whether something meets the spec is irrelevant. (If that were a criterion then you'd have to disallow everything sent through Pubit, which doesn't do adequate validation.) What matters is that the vast majority of digital publishing calls the fixed layout formats Epub.
Nate the great is offline   Reply With Quote